Supporting-drawers.



M. F. ARRINGTON, JR. SUPPORTING DRAWEHS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE n. 1914.

Patented Jan. 22, 11918 WITNESSES F W [NVENTOR 45% l MILLARD F. ARRINGTON, 33., OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

SUPPORTING-DRAWERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

Application filed June 11, 1914. Serial No. 844,571.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILLARD F. Anamo- TON, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supporting-Drawers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use same.

This invention relates to underdrawers constructed in a manner to combine the services of drawers and suspensory in one garment, the object being to provide a support for the scrotum in its most natural position, thereby obviating handling of the parts and to eliminate the many objectionable features of the suspensory separately worn.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front view in a natural wearing position with the supporting member removed the open position being indicated by dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a back view in a natural wearing position. Fig. 3 is a developed view of the supporting member or pouch unattached. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, with the supporting member in serviceable position.

This garment as a whole includes a torso member or trunk portion; leg portions attached thereto and a supporting element extending from the crotch and deriving support from an overlapping flap forming a part of the torso member.

In the embodiment illustrated the torso member may be constructed of several pieces in part composing a band and in part composing a seat portion. Thus, as shown by the drawings, there is provided a seat or rear portion 2 cut in a triangular fashion, as shown best by Fig. 2 and tapering to a somewhat wide strap forming the crotch of the garment and in this embodiment terminating at a seam line 15 where'it is joined to a gathered supporting element. The upper portion of this piece 1s reinforced by the band 18 and it extends to form two overlapping flaps 1 and 3 which form the front or abdominal portion of the garment. The parts 1 and 3 are joined to part 2 at the seams 21 and 22 respectively. bodiment these flaps are cut alike, but the right hand flap lies more immediate to the body and terminates in buttons 6 adapted to be received by the button-holes 7 in the left hand flap which overlaps the other and terminates near the right hand side of the body.

Adjacent its terminal the overlapping left hand flap is provided with a buckle S which receives the strap 9 and enables the parts to be drawn as snugly as desired around the waist after the fashion of an ordinary belt. The left leg portion 4: is joined to the above mentioned body portion along the scam 23, and in like manner the right leg 5 is joined to the body portion along the seam 12; these seams extending around the crotch and in. tersecting the inseams 19 and 20.

The supporting element is fashioned as shown by Fig. 3 and is joined to the crotch portion from the point 15 on the inseam 19 over to the point 16 on the inseam 20. The supporting element in this region is gathered and it is sewed to the body portion along the seam from 15 to i l and from 16 to 17. This supporting element 13 thereupon extends up wardly and it is provided with buckles 10 cooperating with straps 11 secured to the overlapping flap 3; it being understood that any other method of supporting this element 13 may be resorted to.

The foregoing description, together with the accompanying drawings, explains fully the construction and operation of the invention. Various changes in form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of tho advan tages of this invention.

I am aware of existing patents for garments comprising the combination of drawers and the suspcnsory. I therefore do not claim the combination broadly but-I claim as my invention A nether-garment combining a torso or body member providing a triangular flap extending from the left side of the torso toward and terminating adjacent the right side thereof; means for securing said end In this em under suitable tension; leg portions sepa- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto rately attached to said body portions along set my hand 1n presence of two subscribing seam lines; and a supporting element extend- Witnesses.

ing upwardly from the crotch and having its MILLARD F. ARRINGTON, J R. upper end carried by and deriving support Witnesses:

from the flap overlapping from the left H GROVER C. STONE,

hand side of the body portion. W. E. THOMAS.

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Washington, D. G. 

